The Team Software Process Body of Knowledge (TSP BOK) was drafted to define the fundamental knowledge and skills that set TSP-trained individuals apart from other software professionals. It helps individual practitioners to assess and improve their own...

A recent ExecutiveBrief Software Development Trends Survey of more than 500 senior-level business leaders and software development professionals indicates a more optimistic outlook for business in 2010 as compared to 2009, with significant budget increases...

HTML5 is a complex specification that’s being completed in stages. While it’s not expected to be fully ratified for quite some time (Ian Hickson, the editor of the HTML5 working draft spec, suggests it won’t be fully complete until 2022 ), browser vendors...

We’ve been spending time thinking through the differences in implementing new or improving existing EA capabilities for smaller, say a few billion in revenue and larger firms in the Fortune 100 or thereabouts.  Because the larger firms tend to have...

I get many questions on this subject and it often turns into almost a religious debate. Let's throw some structure into it. Here's a decision-to-raw-data stack. 1. Decisions 2. Strategy 3. Policies 4. Objectives (e.g. clear understanding of what is driving...

What constitutes tech savvy today? An alchemy of intellect, ambition, and that uncanny ability to peer around corners. Some of our choices may surprise you. "The empires of the future," Winston Churchill once said, "are the empires of the...

An enterprise architecture is rarely if ever successfully implemented in its entirety in a single project; it is generally implemented incrementally, as a succession of individual business solution projects or coordinated solution programs. How one thinks...

The infrastructure developer/architect will be a key player in the new network Cloud and virtualization are imposing a heavy burden on the infrastructure supporting applications. The "new network" necessary to support the dynamic environment...

There are a couple of avoidable behaviors that architects sometimes adopt that generally annoy project teams. The first is “nick picking” – identifying an apparent issue and then drilling down into it to minute detail.  It appears to be an exercise...

Analyst firm, Gartner, published a set of guidelines intended to ease relationships between cloud vendors and users. As cloud computing becomes more pervasive, the ecosystem (including vendors and analysts) is seeking ways to align expectations among...

In this interactive presentation—one in a series of multimedia frameworks—Lowell Bryan, a director in McKinsey’s New York office, describes the strategic control map, a framework that tracks the dynamics of market capitalization within industries. The...

Summer is here and for the most of us this is the time to take that well-deserved rest and to stand back a little from the daily grind. It is also a time for some reflection, a time to think about the things that we would like to do during the next couple...

A private cloud computing platform is a stack of network, server and storage hardware dedicated to you for the purpose of cloud computing. With a managed cloud computing service, the stack of hardware becomes a customizable cloud of computing and storage...

Windows Azure Platform Appliance has been announced last week at the Worldwide Partner Conference . Windows Azure™ platform appliance is a turnkey cloud platform that customers can deploy in their own datacenter , across hundreds to thousands of servers...

Bob Muglia outlined our vision for the cloud today, at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, DC. You can read our press release and watch the keynote here , but I wanted to give some additional context on our strategy to help businesses embrace...

Despite how attractive cloud computing can sound as an outsourcing option, there's widespread concern that it presents a security and legal minefield for businesses and government. Cloud service providers often cultivate an aura of secrecy about data...

It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes a PowerPoint slide can tell the story of thousands of servers. That was the case with a presentation from Facebook’s Tom Cook at last week’s  Velocity 2010 conference, which depicted the...

The ArchiMate® enterprise architecture modeling language has been developed to provide a uniform representation for enterprise architecture descriptions. It offers an integrated architectural approach that describes and visualizes the different architecture...

To quote Forrester’s CEO and Founder, George Colony, during his keynote at Forrester’s IT Forum EMEA event : “CEOs only care about two things: revenue growth and profitability.” How should we interpret this? CEOs do care about green if it is able to drive...

Summer is here and for the most of us this is the time to take that well-deserved rest and to stand back a little from the daily grind. It is also a time for some reflection, a time to think about the things that we would like to do during the next couple...

The existing unallocated pool of old-style (Internet Protocol Version 4) addresses available from the Regional Internet Registries will be exhausted in mid- 2012. The probable result will be loss of universal Internet interconnectivity, scattered performance...

Yesterday, Microsoft communications head Frank Shaw put up a post on The Official Microsoft Blog rattling off some numbers regarding many of Microsoft’s products. The intention was obviously to lend some perspective to some of the negative coverage Microsoft...